Or, welcome to my low-maintenance heck.

Cuban students attend class next to a photograph of Cuban leader Fidel Castro after an event at the Guayasamin foundation in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. Admirers of ailing leader Fidel Castro travel to Cuba for a five-day 80th birthday bash starting today with different events. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Aside from the sickeningly saccharine language used by Mr. Galeano in describing his favorite murderous regime, I can only stop to imagine that Dan Rather had his tickets booked months ago.

File that observation under "It'd be much funnier if it weren't so true," I reckon.